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An Offer for the More Close-Hearted Among Us

Some of you may not know, but PD has beena round for about 4ish years or so now- possibly longer. Some have been here since about the start, and others are a bit newer- some fall in the middle, like myself. Whether or not you're new-gen or not though, that doesn't change the fact that some of us have gotten close to others in ways besides that of just a forum-bud.

With this in mind, I have an offer. I mentioned this in another thread, but I figure a formal written offer would work a bit better =P I have access to a Ventrilo server, and access to a public Ventrilo as well. I'm admin on one, and know the admin of the other. Here's why I bring this up-

Some of said friends live in areas across the world- a good +5-9 hours ahead of many of us, and make talking verbally an issue if you want more than one person at a time talking. Ventrilo is a program you download from a website that allows voice communication of many users at once through a Microphone at your computer, for free.

I offer up my vent for your use, to talk to who you wish, when you wish- under the condition you respect the owners and other admins wishes, and be respectful in a moderate sense

I can help you get set up, and work your way around. This would allow you all to chat over vent while messing around online (it's ran in the background, so it wouldn't really hamper any of your browsing or whatever), or just to talk when you're bored. And it would allow up to 40 of us to talk at once =P

Let me know what's up and if you're interested, and I'll see about setting you up. I figured I'd try to help in what ways I can <3

-KS

Error does not become Truth because it is widely accepted;
Truth does not become error, even when it stands alone.

Not so much an FAQ as a tutorial, now that I think about it. Here we go:

I also have to put this out, when raiding or doing instances or anything that takes group coordination, use vent. You have no idea how much easier it makes things. To get vent go here and download the client and install. The vent server info is in the guild information section in game. If you have any questions ask either Eli or myself, in that order.

-Steve

Follow those directions and get your clientel- once done, open it up. Start by creating a username, and phonetic- that's the first drop down box you'll see, at the very top. Click the arrow to the right to start. Select "New" and fill out the form. Most people like the phonetic to mimic your in-game name, but I really couldn't care less. Mine specially says "Bitches be flockin' ", so that when I come and go from a channel or server it says "Bitches be flockin' has left the server/channel". Pretty nifty.

Once this is done, you must then make a server selection, one that you have info to that you wish to connect on. We don't have one of our own yet, but I know of a rarely used one that will do for now. Select the arrow to the right of the second drop-box to begin this process. Select "New" again, and input the following information-

Your outbound should probably be at 0, but I have a really quite microphone =P As for push to talk key, I have it on the button to the left of the 1 key, but really it could be anything. You could make it the right click button on your mouse, the mouse wheel- anything you want. Just make sure you unbind that key in game through Key Bindings, found in the Esc. Menu.

Also, your choice of Mixer will probably be different than mine- that's your sound card specs, really. I have Realtek Audio, you may have something else. The important thing is your speaker types are there =P

Also, if you have a mac, this codex may not work for you. You'll have to let me know.

If there are any other questions, feel free to post and ask me. Otherwise, see you in game

-Drae

I'm Drae =P Anyways-

There's that. Let me know if anyone's interested, and I could hop on and say hello.

-KS

Last edited by KidStatutory; 01-29-2007 at 07:01 PM.

Error does not become Truth because it is widely accepted;
Truth does not become error, even when it stands alone.

I have an internal microphone on my laptop, but it's probably a piece of shit. One day I got bored and turned on the spoken command function, and now whenever I try giving it commands, I have to repeat the command about 5 times before the computer gets it. Probably the sound doesn't go through very well on it.

huh, yeah, I found that it's much easier to read and write in Spanish than it is to speak and listen to it. I took French for one year in my life (while I lived in France to be exact) but I was horrible at it because I had a terrible teacher who berated me when I mispronounced words. So, yeah, I know absolutely no French now.